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  1. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Here's how to make things OK... ...Just Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away. Johnny Hamp & Orch., 1932. No whistling, but jazz fiddle by Carl Grayson (né Graub), whom you may know as a Spike Jones City Slicker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvIcOGs4WKA
  2. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    He just the jam man in the band... ...now I know you understand. Gene Kardos & Orch., 1932, will proto-swing ya. (You really should hear this one, if only because there are just 2 copies of the original 78 known to exist today.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQnUu3P2kr8&feature=plcp
  3. Fletch

    The Tie Game: Identify Your US State Out of These Regional Ties

    That may be, or that may be strictly in the eye of the beholder. As Tom Lehrer used to sing: "When directly viewed, everything is lewd." lol
  4. Fletch

    The Tie Game: Identify Your US State Out of These Regional Ties

    I'm from Iowa, which I would like to think is represented in the placid ruralscape of #17. I own #31, which I always assumed was Oklahoma. (It's not marked as such.)
  5. Fletch

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Isham Jones and His Orchestra (1933) Didn't know whether to put this in the Movie or Listening threads. I'm going with Movie because of the visual (and aural) quality, and because the Listening thread ain't what it used to be. Anyway, catch one of the greatest big bands of the day, complete...
  7. Fletch

    DIY Gone Wrong

    Badly Taxidermied Lion approves of this development.
  8. Fletch

    "Turning" a suit jacket

    Might have been possible in the 19c., when coats were often sack cut and construction was simpler. And were there right and wrong sides to suitings then? The big fading area on vintage suits seems to be the lap. I blame countless hours in cars with clear unfiltered glass. Sunlight greys out...
  9. Fletch

    BRITISH Belt-Back Suits and Sports Jackets

    Thanks - I'd forgotten that posting. Dickie's character definitely has the look of a guy who had connections in the black market.
  10. Fletch

    BRITISH Belt-Back Suits and Sports Jackets

    Much nicer looking with the yoke shoulder. The one in the b&w still forms these 3 huge arcs that remind me of...hell, I don't know what they remind me of. They look flashy and cheap, which might have been the point. BTW, it's Richard Attenborough in Brighton Rock, 1947.
  11. Fletch

    Yet another fashion "aviators jacket"

    Just one reason to care. Well, two: time and money. The more style loses market share to flash, the harder and often more expensive it becomes to buy things with style but not flash. That's especially true in leather goods, because piecing is cheaper than sourcing bigger, better skins. You...
  13. Fletch

    BRITISH Belt-Back Suits and Sports Jackets

    What's becoming clear is that this was an American style that took a few years to cross over to Britain. And that was a real departure back then. When Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David was the only serious influence on American men's clothes, this was like putting toothpaste...
  14. Fletch

    Yet another fashion "aviators jacket"

    Q F friggn' T, gentlemen. In this era when almost any style can come bobbing randomly up to the surface, the au courant have learned to attach no significance to style. What they respond to is brand. That's where the image is. It says "I have money to burn, or at least chutzpa enough to look...
  15. Fletch

    FS: Tim Bender Hat Stretcher

    Much sought after is the rare Tim Stretcher Hat Bender. lol
  16. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Sing along with Joe Sanders of Coon-Sanders Nighthawk fame. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URnjPbjQX_I&feature=plcp
  17. Fletch

    Golden era mug shots - New Castle.

    New Castle, Pennsylvania, that is. (Sorry Baron, I just couldn't resist following up on your find. Especially since I found this set today by complete coincidence. On the level!) Historian Angus McDiarmid - not a local; he lives in Scotland! - has gone thru newspapers to reassemble, where...
  19. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Charles Ormston, part of a break-in gang in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1932. More yeggs, footpads, and Bill Sikeses here.
  20. Fletch

    Golden era mug shots - Newcastle.

    Rough looking lot. Too much of that Newky Brown will take it out of you.
  21. Fletch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It was Boston, 1919. Boston Molasses Disaster
  22. Fletch

    FS: WWII USAAF Luggage Bag, WWII Wings Emblem Marked Bag

    This what's commonly called Type B-4 (Bag Assembly, Flyer's, Clothing).
  23. Fletch

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    At least the real-life car will fit in a parking space. If you believed the ad pictures, a 2-door sedan was about the length of a hearse!

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